"I was weird before we were a public company and managed to get it worth whatever it's worth. I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve."

He planned to present Mayor Bloomberg with a pony.

Vanity Fair reported on Mason's plans to give Mayor Bloomberg a pony as a gift when the mayor was visiting. Mason quickly changed plans when he learned that Bloomberg's daughter had been injured in a horse riding accident.

He shared an interesting philosophy on friendship.

Having friends is important. If you have friends, that means you are not insufferable. Make sure you meet the friends of your friends. If you can’t stand any of them, then your friend has poor taste and their validation does you no good. Move on. My advice: save energy by befriending people that have no other friends.

He turned down a $6 billion acquisition from Google.

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Google offered to buy Groupon for $6 billion in November 2010. The company wasn't even three years old yet and it would've made a nice payday for Mason and his crew. But he turned it down.

He wanted to talk about miniature dollhouses.

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Dealbook reported that he was willing to speak about turning down the Google offer "only if you want to talk about my other passion, building miniature dollhouses."

The infamous Superbowl commercial.

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You probably remember the commercial in question. It aired during the 2011 Superbowl and poked fun at deforestation and the Free Tibet movement.